FROM DemmaRus: “The Los Angeles District Attorney has announced that if Academy Award nominee Roman Polanski sets foot in L.A. to attend the awards ceremony, he will be arrested immediately on outstanding warrants for statutory rape. A spokesman for Mr. Polanski has said he will not be attending, but in the event that he does win, R. Kelly will be on hand to accept the award.”

From Mark Winegardner, author of the upcoming The Godfather sequel: “If we’re sinking to cheap shots, I could point out that your newspaper gave scathing reviews to both the novel and the film adaptation of The Godfather – rushes to judgment to which history has not been kind.”